What Are Businesses Afraid Of?

How is it women are welcomed on the front line in the Marines but not on more corporate boards?  Does this mean our skill at killing is worthy but not our skill in business strategies?

What does this show us about our value in our own communities?

While women make up 75% of purchasing decisions – they also make up less than 1% of suppliers to corporations and government.

Which parts of this financial makeup in our business world is acceptable today?

”Women have almost $US20 trillion in purchasing power and yet they are not involved in the creation and solution of services,’‘ WeConnect’s president and co-founder, Elizabeth Vazquez, said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/help-is-at-hand-for-little-women-20120610-

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ISLAMABAD –Begum Salma Ahmed Shah is a renowned businesswoman and is FPCCI Vice President. She is the founder President & CEO of Woman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI) Sindh and Chairperson of BSA Inc Karachi.

As compared to men indeed the ratio of women in the field of trade and industry is almost negligible. Among other reasons why women are shying away from industry are four major reasons

(1) An enormous amount of money required for investment.

(2) The investment climate is unstable due to the electricity & gas shortages.

(3) Access to credit is not easy.

(4) The interest rates for loans are not viable.

(5) The law and order conditions prevailing in Karachi.

Women are therefore shy of making long-term investments. As far as trade is concerned a large number of women are taking part in this activity especially in the urban areas. However, the figures are not satisfactory and new venues of investment must be tapped, in order to attract a larger ratio of women.

Read more: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/business/10-Jun-2012/fpcci-should-encourage-women-in-business

Women around the world are asking these questions.  Will women in American join the conversation with intentional actions to create solutions?  I am ready, are you?

What Will We Do to Change This Weary Growing Situation?

Before I was going to give a client their Communications Media Audit today I saw an email from my Texas Bloggers group about “who wants a new dress.”

I am game for dresses, they are my favorite.  Being able to feel feminine in any setting, business, speaking or out to dinner – a women can be a women even if she plays hard ball in the professional court.

Introducing Anita at Cedar Hill Ranch-Yup a Texas Gal – we are awesome women!

Go visit her site, see if you can win yourself a new dress with Shabby Apple. Cedar Hill ranch Gabby Dress Giveaway Gotta love learning about new dress and clothing sites online.  Shabby Apple has some gorgeous dresses.

Here are the ones I want:

Which dress will you choose?

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This is language we are use to hearing

about men, right!

1. Would you be surprised to hear it is about doing business with women?
2. How many times have we dishonored our fellow sisters with a poverty mindset?
3. How can we find empowering ways to support each others business?

Why do men win the game?

Because they create camaraderie with each other and do not disrespect each other in business.  They live by a code women could learn from.

I am not saying they never bring a bad deal to the table.  I am saying they are far more supportive of each other and find others ways in which to vent their frustrations other than tearing each others business down.

Can you say beat each other up on the field of sports.

Sign me up, if that is what it takes to find a way for women to stop being so short sighted.

Have you tuned into Women in Business radio?  It is a segment on Breakthrough Business Strategies radio every Monday at 12pm ET, #WIBRadio airs around 1:15pm ET ( radio is fluid, we never cut someone off when they are giving powerful knowledge).

Who do you know would be a good guest?

This rant was inspired by this brilliant piece via Susannah Breslin on Forbes <<go read it now then let’s talk.

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Women in Business Radio is the

communication Hub for

Women in Business Globally

Not everyone will make the front page of Fast Company or Forbes top 100 list. Yet, women owned businesses are still the back bone of our economy here in the USA. Women In Business Radio is here to empower and give women in business a place to grow their reputation as well as awareness of other women they can connect with growing a stronger network.

Big Changes for Women in Business radio, we have joined with our brother show at Breakthrough Business Strategies radio and will be a part of that timeline now. Breakthrough Business Strategies airs at 12pm ET and after their featured guest at 1:15pm ET we will roll right into Women in Business Segment. This benefits Women in Business radio by spotlighting our Women owned businesses on the same channel as our high profile business guests each week, expanding their reach. Join us as we make your Monday’s a power packed way to start your week.

Monday’s 1:15pm ET

646-200-3742 Mobile listeners

Women In Business Radio (online listeners CLICK HERE)

Are you caught in time and missing that 2 step beat that brings you happiness?  We know a woman who will yank you back the fun of life and your business.  Who are we talking about?

Jessica Northey the owner of Digital Marketing Strategy boutique firm Finger Candy Media, LLC and is also the Founder of Country Music Chat on Twitter (#CMchat).

A Tuscon Native Jessica Northey is taking over the Country Music industry one Tweet at a time. Specializing in, using  Social Media when you ARE the brand, breaking new artists and strategic use of Social Media for Broadcasting; her optimization techniques are being implemented at stations across the nation, by many Musicians and Entertainers and her writings/methods instructional material for various programs from Real Estate to the classes at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

Join us 1:15pm for Women in Business Radio

Follow, connect and communicate with Jessica:

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Facebook

CMChat

Finger Candy Media

Are you a business that markets to

women business owners?

Sponsors to Women In Business Radio are able to gain great visibility with our listeners. Let’s talk and see if it will serve your business needs?

We have come along way baby!

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Women in Business Radio is the

communication Hub for

Women in Business Globally

Not everyone will make the front page of Fast Company or Forbes top 100 list. Yet, women owned businesses are still the back bone of our economy here in the USA. Women In Business Radio is here to empower and give women in business a place to grow their reputation as well as awareness of other women they can connect with growing a stronger network.

Big Changes for Women in Business radio, we have joined with our brother show at Breakthrough Business Strategies radio and will be a part of that timeline now. Breakthrough Business Strategies airs at 12pm ET and after their featured guest at 1:15pm ET we will roll right into Women in Business segment. This benefits Women in Business radio by spotlighting our Women owned businesses on the same channel as our high profile business guests each week, expanding their reach. Join us as we make your Monday’s a power packed way to start your week.

Monday’s 12:00pm ET

646-200-3742 Mobile listeners

Women In Business Radio (online listeners CLICK HERE)

This week we will take our Savvy Sales tip with Andrea Waltz and go in more depth for you to prepare yourself for better sales in 2012.

Andrea is the co-author for “Go For No” and speaks nationally to business owners and direct marketers on how to expand beyond their limits in sales.

Connect with Andrea Waltz:

Twitter

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Go For No

Linkedin

You Tube Go For No

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Speakchat

Twylah is the topic of Speakchat this coming December 5, 2011.

1. Are you a business owner that speaks to market your business?
2. Are you an author who speaks?
3. Are you wanting to learn more about how to be a speaker?

Then you want to join is for Speakchat every Mon. 9pm ET on Twitter.  We are a social media conversation that has created an educational community and conversation around speaking for speakers, authors and business owners.

Here are more details for this Mon. on Speakchat with Kelly Kim from Twylah.

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Michele Price is a high energy, straight talking speaker, radio host and media/publicity/marketing strategist for small business/authors/speakers.  As the voice of Women in Business and Breakthrough Business Strategies radio, Michele created a communication hub for businesses globally.  She is the founder of #Speakchat a social media chat for the speaker/author community. Hire Michele to speak to your organization on where and why online communications drives your business recognition, as well as sales in your business today.

Women in Business Radio is the

communication Hub for

Women in Business Globally

Not everyone will make the front page of Fast Company or Forbes top 100 list. Yet, women owned businesses are still the back bone of our economy here in the USA. Women In Business Radio is here to empower and give women in business a place to grow their reputation as well as awareness of other women they can connect with growing a stronger network.

Big Changes for Women in Business radio, we have joined with our brother show at Breakthrough Business Strategies radio and will be a part of that timeline now. Breakthrough Business Strategies airs at 12pm ET and after their featured guest at 1:15pm ET we will roll right into Women in Business Segment. This benefits Women in Business radio by spotlighting our Women owned businesses on the same channel as our high profile business guests each week, expanding their reach. Join us as we make your Monday’s a power packed way to start your week.

Monday’s 12:00pm ET

646-200-3742 Mobile listeners

Women In Business Radio (online listeners CLICK HERE)

Featured Guest

Uneeka Jay the founder of PowerMommyNation states…The answered prayer for every mother who wishes there were 48 hours in a day opposed to 24.  How many time shave you caught yourself saying that same prayer?

Today we will discuss what has been Uneeka’s journey to get her where she is and how can you relate and learn from it.  Who knows, you might create a whole new solution based on that thinking and problem solving.

Follow, connect & communicate with Uneeka Jay:

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Facebook

PowerMommyNation

WIBradio Savvy Tip

Heather Frey gives us Fitness Tips every month and helps us to create saneness in our worlds of confusion and overload. Each week we bring you experts in their area of expertise to share an executable tip you can put into place to help you improve your performance.

Connect with Heather Frey

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Smashfit

Each week we bring you experts in their area of expertise to share an executable tip you can put into place to help you improve your performance.

Announcements For Women in Business

You will want to check out the Hashtag Chat | Social Media Conversation on Twitter

#SpeakChat

For those of you who are in the Speaking industry (or want to be in) there is a twitter chat that you will want to participate in called Speak Chat.

• Do you speak to market your business?
• Do you speak as your business?

Join us For #Speakchat every Monday 9pm ET

We have had almost 9 million impressions from #Speakchat, in one session come join the conversation.

Previous Guests have been Olivier Blanchard.

Here are details for you The vision for Speak Chat is simple… Creating a community of individuals and companies who revolve around the professional speaking industry. You are welcome if you are a speaker, authors, event planner, PR professionals, speaker bureau, publishers, conferences, vendors of the industry i.e. video, sound, product productions…the list is rather long which is what will make this an exciting chat. Our goal is to have weekly topics that share and expand all of our knowledge, connections and of course business.

Our purpose for Speak Chat is to be educational and not marketing in our conversations (just for clarification) Visit here for details on what happens in #SpeakChat It is every Monday 9pm ET if you are unfamiliar with twitter chat you can read up on this one click>> here.

Are you a business that markets to

women business owners?

Sponsors to Women In Business Radio are able to gain great visibility with our listeners. Let’s talk and see if it will serve your business needs?

We have come along way baby!

Email Us!(<<CLICK)

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Having been consciousness and aware of words, labels and how we talk about each other for 25+ years, it was great to see this Ignite presentation by Caroline Ducker on how we can improve having more women being in the Tech world.

1. Where are you referring to yourself in less than accurate languaging?
2. How can we help each other by letting go of the misplaced conversations buffers that take away our power?
3. What will you do differently this week to be a part of this solution?

Thank you to Ignite for creating this powerful messages in 5 minutes.  Brilliant idea in action.

Image by Getty Images via @daylife

Caroline Drucker, Partner Marketing Manager at SoundCloud, offers a simple, yet powerful solution for the problem of the paltry number of women in tech. Drucker presented her quick fix at IgniteNYC, an event that gives speakers 5 minutes and 20 slides to get their point across.

Takeaway quote: “And by women, I mean people who have menstruated and paid taxes.” Embrace your womanhood.

Pass this one and join us Mondays at 1:15pm for Women in Business Radio

Women in Business Radio is the

communication Hub for

Women in Business Globally

Not everyone will make the front page of Fast Company or Forbes top 100 list. Yet, women owned businesses are still the back bone of our economy here in the USA. Women In Business Radio is here to empower and give women in business a place to grow their reputation as well as awareness of other women they can connect with growing a stronger network.

Big Changes for Women in Business radio, we have joined with our brother show at Breakthrough Business Strategies radio and will be a part of that timeline now. Breakthrough Business Strategies airs at 12pm ET and after their featured guest at 1:15pm ET we will roll right into Women in Business Segment. This benefits Women in Business radio by spotlighting our Women owned businesses on the same channel as our high profile business guests each week, expanding their reach. Join us as we make your Monday’s a power packed way to start your week.

Monday’s 12:00pm ET

646-200-3742 Mobile listeners

Women In Business Radio (online listeners CLICK HERE)

Featured Guest

Bon Crowder, math mom, business woman and education champion. She is the creator of Math Is Not a Four Letter Word, a math education website supporting parents and teachers.

It has become socially acceptable, even desirable, to do poorly in math.  It’s detrimental to the next generation for them to witness this in their role models. Furthermore, each generation that’s proud of its inability to do math, will contribute to the spiraling decline in our global math competency.

Bon is dedicated to teaching parents strategies to create a positive math environment in their home, so their children can grow up in a numerate world and crush this cycle. She does this through free content on her site as well as through speaking engagements and family numeracy and literacy programs like Count 10 Read
10.

Follow, connect & communicate with Bon Crowder:

Twitter

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Math Is Not a Four Letter Word

WIBradio Savvy Tip

Stephanie Calahan will be sharing another of her time worthy productivity tips. What will you be practicing next week and being more efficient?

Connect here with Stephanie Calahan:

Twitter

Productive & Organized blog

Facebook

Linkedin

Each week we bring you experts in their area of expertise to share an executable tip you can put into place to help you improve your performance.
Announcements For Women in Business

You will want to check out the Hashtag Chat | Social Media Conversation on Twitter

#SpeakChat

For those of you who are in the Speaking industry (or want to be in) there is a twitter chat that you will want to participate in called Speak Chat.

• Do you speak to market your business?
• Do you speak as your business?

Join us For #Speakchat every Monday 9pm ET

This week is open mic

Here is where you can join us- this tool we use for our chats allows Facebook and Linkedin to join us expanding our reach for a social media conversation-chat.

#Speakchat (<<<Click)

We have had almost 9 million impressions from #Speakchat, in one session come join the conversation.

Previous Guests have been Olivier Blanchard.

Here are details for you The vision for Speak Chat is simple… Creating a community of individuals and companies who revolve around the professional speaking industry. You are welcome if you are a speaker, authors, event planner, PR professionals, speaker bureau, publishers, conferences, vendors of the industry i.e. video, sound, product productions…the list is rather long which is what will make this an exciting chat. Our goal is to have weekly topics that share and expand all of our knowledge, connections and of course business.

Our purpose for Speak Chat is to be educational and not marketing in our conversations (just for clarification) Visit here for details on what happens in #SpeakChat It is every Monday 9pm ET if you are unfamiliar with twitter chat you can read up on this one click>> here.

Are you a business that markets to

women business owners?

Sponsors to Women In Business Radio are able to gain great visibility with our listeners. Let’s talk and see if it will serve your business needs?

We have come along way baby!

Email Us!(<<CLICK)

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If you have ever received the comment “You are just being sensitive” when you chose to speak up for yourself or “I was just joking stop freaking out“…there is a good chance you have been gaslighted.

Here is a great post from Yashir Ali that goes in to better details what is gaslighting and what it looks like.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yashar-hedayat/a-message-to-women-from-a_1_b_958859.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

What I want you to do after reading this is to ask yourself these questions:

• When has this happened to me?
• What did I feel when it happened?
• How did I respond?
• Have it happened lately?
• Am I still allowing this to  effect me without recognizing it;s manipulation?
• How can we as women be more supportive of each other?
• What will you do differently now you are aware of this and what it truly is?
• Are you going to be willing to “be” the change you wish to see?

Will you see the difference in our worlds when we stand for our brilliance instead of argue for our weaknesses?

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How Man Times Have You Asked Yourself

1. What Am I Here For?
2. What Can I Do To Make A Difference?
3. What Is My Purpose?

Are you giving that question the time it deserves to help you get to the accurate answers?

Going through a rigorous program with Pauline Serice author of Authentic Leadership Development has been whipping my butt – to put bluntly.  We hear folks throw around a myriad of words that for many of us do not ring clearly because they are not being used in the right context.  They are not being given the honor and position that will allow the user, well as the words to create the difference desired and expressed.

For example, my mother so eloquently put yesterday she is shifting the way she uses the word “Love”.  She said too many times we have fallen into the guise of saying “I love ____” when in fact we do not love it we “like it” even “like it a lot”, but LOVE nope.  When we lie to ourselves in our own languaging and communications like that, we are corrupting our ability to live a life of purpose because we are throwing nails in the road ahead of our own cars.

“Have we morphed the meaning of love

or have we distorted it?”

What problem are you here to solve?

1. Do you know your purpose?
2. What if that clarity of purpose allowed you to achieve what you wanted with more accuracy and speed?
3. Do you think you can do that if you are using one of your best tools – your communication when it is misaligned?

As women we take our roles seriously and with great pride in that we recognize we “create.”

Whether you are a physical mother or not, women by their physiology create.

We create life in many different forms.

• Children
• Ideas
• Solutions to big and small problems

It is who we are and what we do.

I often hear women saying these statements that

dis-empower them

• I am so scattered I can’t keep focus.
• There is so much I am responsible for and it keeps getting larger.
• I can’t seem to finish anything I come up with.

When you gain clarity around your purpose, you give yourself the reinforcement to be able to ask yourself simple questions to ensure you are staying on track when these type of comments start surfacing.  Many times these questions halt our progress because there are so many limiting and negative beliefs we have grown up accepting from others.

Ask yourself, have you heard any of the above comments and because you could not see your own clarity in the situation, you accepted the statements and took them on as your own.  They gave you solace and allowed you to not keep looking for your own answers.  I have.

There is an assignment I complete a few weeks ago that has helped me tremendously, it was defining my purpose.

What I am here on planet earth to fulfill?

We lie to ourselves when it is time to answer this question.  (This one sentence is a whole other blog post).

Here is what I discovered:

• I did know my purpose
• It was inside me all along
• I was just afraid to say it out-loud
• When you say it out-loud you can feel it when you are on target
• When you commit to your purpose-doors start opening up for you
• Knowing and declaring your purpose starts your work, not completes it.
• That work that manifests from your purpose is more satisfying – it feeds you.

Here is my purpose…………what is yours?

Increase people’s awareness to live from depth- to live a deep and meaningful life that contributes to the quality of everyone’s lives.

Teach and develop via business how to make a difference as well as a profit.

What benefit are you cheating yourself from by not claiming your purpose?

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